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Oct 17, 2005

Changes - USA - New trucking industry leader says changes needed

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., USA -waff48News -17 Oct 2005: -- As the American Trucking Association's new chairman starting tomorrow, U-S express executive Patrick Quinn says he will be talking about truck-only toll lanes and the possibility of parking big rigs during rush hours... The Chattanooga trucking executive says if there are not going to be more roads, congestion has to be relieved somehow... Quinn says 68 percent of the nation's economy is hauled by trucks and by 2016, the demand is growing and we're headed for national gridlock... and added, there has been talk of trying truck-only toll lanes on a trial basis on Interstate 81 in Virginia. He says new sleep break restrictions on drivers pose a problem for parking trucks during rush hours...

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